Crosstown Drift Returns to West Cork

Crosstown Drift festival will return to Garnish Island, Co. Cork from 20-22 September.

The event hosts musical walking tour, basket-making, an evening concert, and other arrangements around the island aiming to uplift Irish creatives and combine elements of fiction, cultural conversations and demonstrations.

This year's festivities feature the likes of Irish Author Sínead Gleeson and musicians Cormac Begley (performing on Saturday September 21) and Lisa Hannigan (performing Sunday September 22) on the Casita lawn.

The festival used to take place in Cork city upon its inception in 2016, before moving to its new location, and is now in its second year of being located on Garnish Island, on a 37-acre space with scenic greenery.

The schedule for the festival includes a Friday walk and talk with gardener Glyn Sherratt and traditional willow basket making with Rosemary Kavanagh.

Saturday afternoon on the Casita lawn, Irish co-authors of Atlas of the Irish Civil War will lead a talk on their book; and a performance with concertina player Cormac Begley.

Sunday is in for more events, with fiction writers Sínead Gleeson, Aoife Barry, Sarah Harte, and Danny Denton reading new pieces and extracts from their most recent novels, essays, and writings.

To attend the evening concerts on September 21 and 22, tickets can be purchased from the site; these tickets include a return voyage from the Harbour Queen Ferries leaving from the pier in Glenzgariff at 6 p.m.

CROSSTOWN DRIFT SCHEDULE

Friday 20th September

A Walk and Talk with Glyn Sherratt - 11.00am | Starts at the Casita Lawn
Wild Rose Basketry - Talk & Demonstration - 12.30pm | The Casita Lawn

WALKING TOUR MUSIC - 1.30pm | Starts from the Casita Lawn

Saturday 21st September

Atlas of the Irish Civil War - 11.30am | The Casita Lawn

Grub Circus All at Sea - 1.00pm | The Casita Lawn

WALKING TOUR POETRY - 2.30pm | Starts at the Casita Lawn

Evening Concert CORMAC BEGLEY - 6.00pm

Sunday 22nd September

What Ireland Can Teach the World about Music with Toner Quinn with Eoghan O’Sullivan -11.30am | The Casita Lawn

Marjorie Brennan in conversation with crime writers Amy Jordan, Michelle Teahan & Michelle Dunne - 12.45pm | The Casita Lawn

WALKING TOUR WRITERS - 2.00pm | Start at The Casita Lawn

EVENING CONCERTt LISA HANNIGAN - 6.00pm